DESPERADO
A film review by Tim Voon
Copyright 1997 Tim Voon
Cast: Antonio Bandaras, Salma Hayek, Joaquim de Almeida, Steve Buscemi, Cheech Marin, Quentin Tarantino Director: Robert Rodriguez Screenplay: Robert Rodriguez
I like a man who goes to confession, after he's just killed thirty drug dealers in one of the noisiest gunfight, showdowns I have seen on screen.
The sound of ricocheting bullets is still ringing in my ears, days after I finished watching this movie; and the amount of ketchup splashing from mouths, noses and puncture wounds, would have made the tomato industry very happy.
Give me a Marguerita, light me a Cuban cigar and put on the 'Gypsy Kings', and you have for yourself 'Desperado'.
Ooops! I forgot to mention, also bring along your arsenal of explosives in a guitar case; your ten millimetre machine gun in another guitar case; your secret rocket launcher in yet another guitar case; your heroin in the guitar; your little boy who carries the guitar with the dope; your librarian who stashes dope for the heroin dealer; the beer that tastes like piss; and two brothers who are as different as night and day.
Comment: Original and violent.
Timothy Voon e-mail: stirling@netlink.com.au
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